Friday, 25 November 2011

This is another concept with nowhere to go. Rajesh Finesse was invented by me and Martin as a response to the lack of Middle-Eastern adventurers around these days. Back in the 20s you couldn't move without tripping over a heroic desert-man but these days all they're allowed to do in films is get shot.

Rajesh Finesse is a daring Arabian prince with a flying tiger-skin rug and an appetite for virgin priestess vagina. He crosses the sand dunes with his colonial manservant, Alabaster Strong (pictured above), seeking out ancient treasures and mysteries and probably genies and stuff. He's also a massive asshole.

Dead Beat is a comic I wrote with Martin Woolley about a dead detective investigating the death of his dead girlfriend. It's on hold at the moment until some older projects get finished but here's a couple of test pages I made to try and figure out how the hell you put a comic together.

Ignore the nasty fonts. The text won't look like that in the proper comic.

Fantom and the Hands were conceived when me and Martin were trying to work out how short it's possible to make a murder mystery without it being rubbish. They are turn-of-the-century magicians who moonlight as detectives. Gabriel Fantom is a diminutive, womanising escape artist and The Hands is a blind, European sleight-of-hand expert.

It turns out that a murder mystery needs to be at least 20 minutes. I don't intend to make a solid 20 minutes of animation any time soon.

About Me

Hello. I'm a Bristol-based animator, illustrator and film maker. My real passion is on the pre-production side of things and I love writing, designing characters and building worlds. I believe that strong design and story structure trumps every other aspect of animation and if anyone disagrees with me I will fight them.
To see all my finished work go to WWW.TOMGRAN.CO.UK